Mary Mosquera
National coordinator asks regional extension centers to consider using health care CIOs in health IT adoption project.
Many questions relate to how to ensure providers meet meaningful use for systems they are already using.
Senate Appropriations Committee directs DOD and VA to report on plans to coordinate their EHR modernization projects.
At meeting, health IT meaningful use panel also sketches out ideas for setting 2013 incentive measures.
Health IT firm will deploy tools for health information sharing among military and commercial providers in the Pacific Northwest.
National health IT boss talked about e-prescribing and meaningful use at a meeting sponsored by Surescripts.
Agency wants to build a network of performance improvement managers who will share public health best practices.
VA wants to accommodate physicians who use electronic tools from external Web sites to help them track patients, CIO says.
HIMSS 2010 Davies Awards of Excellence also include Sentara Healthcare, Nemours, the Diabetes Center, Miramont clinic and Open Door clinic.
Spokane VA Medical Center, Fairchild Air Force Base and information exchange network Inland Northwest Health Services will share records.